SCOM 2016

A lot of Business Owners like to see how is the core business service running and previously SCOM Admins struggled to monitor and showcase it as  a single component.
now SCOM 2016 can monitor complete business service as one component
An Example of Business Service : Internet Banking
SCOM was well known to monitor Individual components
Eg: Servers (Server1, Server2)
    Web Auth (Login > 5 Seconds)
 
Today SCOM 2016 can monitor

• End User Experience Monitoring
• Application Monitoring
• Infrastructure Monitoring

More enhanced Features on SCOM 2016:-

• Synthetic Transactions
• DevOps Integration
• .Net Monitoring with APM
• Dashboard Framework
• Management Packs
• Cloud Monitoring

So What's New,
Currently SCOM is  in Technical Preview 5
Capacity to access Management Packs

• Proactively identify new technologies or components (i.e workloads) deployed in your IT infrastructure that are not monitored
• Show when not using latest version of a Management Pack
• Feature only works with Management Packs release by Microsoft, 
• Currently  does not support third party management packs

Alert Data Management

• Get Better Visibility of the Alerts being generated in your management group which helps you reduce alerts that you don't consider actionable or relevant
• Identify the number of alert each management pack has generated
• Identify the number of alert generated by a monitor/Rule within each management pack
• Identity different sources(Component) that generated that alert

Network Monitor has been extended

• SCOM 2016 Includes a tool which will allow you to create a custom management pack to 
• monitor generic network devices (non-certified as of SCOM 2007 R2)
• Support of resource utilization matrix such as processor and memory
• Enables you to add monitoring of additional device components
• such as fan, temperature sensor, voltage sensor and power supply
• Tool generates a management pack

Nano Server monitoring

• Discover a Nano Server and push Nano-Compatible agent to the server from the console

UNIX/LINUX Monitoring Improvements

• Full Monitoring of the LAMP Stack
• Ability to run full shell script or python/perl script to identify the health of custom applications
• Credentials for UNIX/Linux machines can be stored as Run as account so that  operations staff can use these to discover servers without having to know the password
• you can now monitor up to 2x the number of Unix/Linux server per management server, against the previously supported scale
• Operations manager now uses by default the new Async
• Windows management Infrastructure (MI) APIs instead of WSMAN sync APIs
• Apache MP relies on an Apache module that is installed automatically if the 
• Linux agent discovers that apache is installed it monitors the apache server itself, virtual hosts and SSL Certificates
• you can optionally create probe rules and monitors for availability and response time  information
• of immediate value is the 21-day warning and 7-day error alerts on SSL certificate expiry
• Microsoft is also looking to provide monitoring for MongoDB, Cassandra  and Redis

Maintenance Schedule

• You can schedule maintenance mode using SCOM 2016
• View All Maintenance mode schedules from a single console
• Certified partner solution in console (Ops Logic, Squared up)

Under Management Packs View on the console, you now can see the below options

• Installed Management Packs
• Tune Management Packs
• Updates and Recommendation

you can have extended Dashboard using Visio Connection to SCOM 2016
Get Ready for the Hybrid World
SCOM + OMS
Take your investment forward.
OMS Supports lots of technologies like

• Azure, 
• Private Clouds (Azure Stack, Hyper-V, VMware, OpenStack)
• Amazon Web Services